photopic vision

1. 1.

   normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived

   Synonymsdaylight vision

   Broadersight

   Narrowerfoveal vision

Questions about photopic vision

What does photopic vision mean?

photopic vision means "normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived".

What is another word for photopic vision?

Close synonyms include daylight vision. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photopic vision a common word?

photopic vision is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.